The University of Nigeria Nsukka has introduced online portal for transcripts that enables her alumni to
access their transcripts from anywhere in the world. According to the The Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof BarthoOkolo, the UNN i-transcript service draws from on-going work on digitizing academic records in the institution. The first part of the exercise, according to him, involves digitization of records of the last 30 years up to 1980. The school has digitized records of students' academic work for the last 20 years. In the second phase, the institution would compile records up to its inception in 1960.
The University disclosed that the introduction of the service was to
ease the burden of students who often have to travel all the way down to
the school for the sole purpose of getting a transcript of their
academic records for graduate studies or employment.
The UNN "i-transcript", as it is branded, is accessible on the university website alumni.unn.edu.ng/itranscript.
Users are expected fill a form with their names, matriculation as
well as email address after which they will provide details of the
institution to which they want the University to send the transcript.
"Every student can get his records from the transcript portal. They
apply online, pay using any of the payment services and get a signed and
authenticated e-transcript in a few days. "Hard copy records would be couriered either locally or
internationally and take a few more days as well as cost additional
sums." he explained.
Okolo said that the e-transcript service is one of several reforms aimed
at fulfilling the transformation vision for the university. It builds on
efforts in the last two academic sessions to ensure that graduands get
their certificates immediately while semester examination results are
compiled and approved by faculties and senate within 14 days of
examinations ending.
Meanwhile, Prof BarthoOkolo, the 12th and current Vice Chancellor,
has articulated a new vision of internationalizing the university by
turning it into a world-class institution with the enabling environment
of infrastructure, faculty and learning environment, funding and
international linkages.
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